The idea for Time Travelers: Quantum Magic came to me decades ago, when I was in my teens, and I considered that when Earth makes contact with other planets and galaxies it should be through transmitting our music across the universe. This was a brief thought, and I did not think about it again until 2004, when I awoke in the middle of the night, the radio was on and music was playing. It was the crescendo of the song "Inside My Love." The flowing, high pitch crescendo was so beautiful that it sounded as though it was calling out to all the universe. I immediately determined that this is the music we should transmit throughout the galaxies to make contact with alien beings.

Time Travelers: Quantum Magic is Book One of a science fiction trilogy. In the second book, Time Travelers: Zone One, they journey to the future, year 3500, to a place called Zone One, which is a totalitarian society where the rulers live in Satellite City, a gigantic satellite in outer space from which they oppressively rule over the masses down on Earth. In Zone One, the time travelers are devastated. In the third book for this science fiction trilogy, Time Travelers: Destiny, the time travelers go to Mars and find a highly advanced society there, and are there when Earth attacks Mars in a great war. I have also written screenplays for the trilogy.

To date I have written seven books and four screenplays. In 2002, my novel Election 2000 Enchantment was published by iUniverse. It tells the whole story of the 2000 election crisis in Florida, making it important political and historical literature. With all the upheaval and mystery that abounded during the 2000 election crisis, I weaved all day-by-day events of the derailed, 33-day election into an entertaining political romance novel through the lives of two lovely young women. Jennifer McCloud and Robin Booth become ballot recounters during the election crisis and encounter intrigue, romance, passion, danger and deception as they meet a number of good and bad people from across the country that converge upon Florida due to the election crisis.

My novel Adventures of Nebraska Wade was published in 2004 by iUniverse. It is a historical cowboy novel about an elegant black dressmaker who travels throughout the Wild West experiencing intrigue, fun and romance. This western novel presents a totally new, refreshing image for the 19th century black woman as refined, free, smart and high-spirited, instead of the old downtrodden and slave girl images typically depicted for black women of that era. My latest screenplay is Stonefield, a detective, science fiction thriller about a Sherlock Holmes type Chicago detective (not unlike Morgan Freeman), and his young partner, who hunt for a serial killer that has supernatural powers. In 2000, I wrote The Art of Creative Writing: Bringing Fiction Characters to Life, which is a non-fiction guidebook that teaches the elements of writing great fiction through techniques that I developed over twenty years.

Jennifer and Robin are back! My work in progress is Obama! Election 2008, which will be published in 2011. This novel is the sequel to Election 2000 Enchantment. Obama! Election 2008 includes all major events of the 2008 campaigns in an exciting political romance novel, and depicts the inside story of a fraudulent investment firm that is seeking billions from the Wall Street bailout, and Jennifer and Robin experience it all.

I was born in Chicago. Since the age of twelve, I have wanted to become a writer, and I knew that I had to first travel, see the world, to become knowledgeable relative to the dynamics of human nature. Since then, I have traveled the world extensively. I lived abroad twice: in Geneva, Switzerland where I worked as a secretary at the UN, and in Nigeria working as a photographer. I have also worked as a corporate secretary in New York City. I earned my history degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where I conducted extensive history and literature research projects. I graduated from Dunbar Vocational High School in Chicago. I studied photojournalism at Los Angeles City College, and worked as an advertising and frequently published newspaper photojournalist in the 1980s, which gave me the opportunity to attend FESTAC international arts event in Nigeria. Presently, I have one daughter who is a doctor.

Elaine North is available for interviews and lectures, and welcome book reviews. Contact: authorelainenorth@yahoo.com

Presently, I reside in Chicago, where I am an entrepreneur with a business editing books, screenplays, dissertations and grants; ghostwriting, and tutoring writers.